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October 11, 2004

Connected DVD Players

Whatever became of the connected/wireless DVD players announced in January from Linksys and D-Link? Did these products get abandoned? I thought that these devices would be the most likely to get the wireless side of the equation right which seems pretty important if you want to stream video over a wireless network.

In the absence of those devices, is the Gateway Connected DVD player the best of the crop (vs. GoVideo, etc.) for streaming video over a 802.11g network?
-- Ryan

October 11, 2004 in Home Theater, media servers, Networking

Answers

I was at a Fry's last week, and I saw a Linksys media server and a d-link one, but those only do streaming music and photos over the network.

I don't see any DVD players on the linksys site, maybe they killed the product, or maybe it was just a rebranded go video/gateway DVD.

Posted by: Matt Haughey at Oct 11, 2004 8:29:28 PM

Now I can't even find the connected DVD player on Gateway's site. Do they even sell it anymore?

Posted by: Ryan at Oct 11, 2004 9:45:23 PM

They just took it off their site today:
http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2004/10/gateway_kills_t.html

Posted by: Matt Haughey at Oct 11, 2004 10:18:50 PM

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